Something fairly remarkable played out before our very eyes on Selection Sunday when on national TV grown men figuratively wrung their hands because the heretofore downtrodden were actually given a break.

Imagine that. On both sides of the equation.

Billy Packer and Jim Nantz agonized over the development that "only" 26 of the 34 at-large berths in the NCAA Tournament went to clubs from the nation's six "power" conferences. Indeed, they were offended that the Missouri Valley Conference has as many teams in this competition as the ACC and that the Colonial Athletic Association has two.

Strange. Very strange. Because there, for the world to hear, were a couple of guys -- each armed with supportive facts and statistics, those pesky things -- offering sympathy to Goliath while mourning the good fortune of David.

Me? I agree with the CBS-TV colleagues of Packer and Nantz -- Clark Kellogg and Seth Davis -- who applauded the anointing of the little guys. And if that anointing came at the expense of the Marylands and the Michigans and the Cincinnatis and Florida States . . . well, all those folks headed off to the NIT, grumbling with every step, could have done something about it.

They could have won more games.

(P.S. I probably shouldn't advise you of this, but Packer and Nantz would like you to know that the last time a school from a non-BCS conference won the NCAA Tournament was in 1990 when Nevada-Las Vegas was the final team standing. As the poet, Homer, might say . . . D'oh!)